1924The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
A young engineer goes up to Davos for a three-week visit to his cousin at a mountain sanatorium and stays seven years, the fever of the place and of one guest keeping him on the heights while the flatland forgets him. The map climbs from the cure-town of Davos-Platz in the valley up the funicular to the sanatorium shelf, and out onto the high slopes where a blizzard nearly ends him.
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